Wow – what an embarrassment of riches this week. Partly because of developments in AI and the law, partly because of regulatory and litigation developments in ERISA and partly because the insurance world never stops spinning, there is a metaphorical feast of articles and the like that I could discuss in this week’s edition of
I continue to push through the last few in my countdown of my Top Ten posts on this blog in 2025, having now reached the number three post. Number three is actually one of my favorites. It raises the question of when, exactly, AI claims processing is proper and when, instead, it will prove to
And their off! The old racing call seems like a good fit for the first week of a new business year, as everything and everyone that was put to the side for the last two weeks of December comes racing back onto the desktop.
And so it has been as well with articles, blog posts
Are you old enough to remember Soviet figure skating judges in the Winter Olympics? They used to be accused all the time of putting their thumb on the scale, lowering the allegedly “objective” scoring for American skaters so as to get the results they wanted. If you recall, I reserved the same right this year
Boxing Day is my favorite post-holiday holiday, similar in many ways but better than the day after Thanksgiving, because the latter has, over the years, been overtaken by pressure to either shop or get started on end of the year rushes for work. Boxing Day, at least for me, suffers from none of that.
Boxing
So much to choose from to write about this week, but I am, by my own rules for this series of posts, limited to five topics. I noted last week that there was a risk I would beat holiday jokes into the ground this month, and here I go again, starting with an article about
Busy, busy week. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to put Thanksgiving in the fourth quarter but they probably should have given a little more thought to whether a three day week in the middle of the last quarter of the year really makes sense.
Oh well, as I pointed out
It’s not just happenstance that this weekly round up section of my blog is called “Five Favorites for Friday.” It’s in honor of Elmo, who did not rap about the number four, or nine, but the number five. Thus, “Five Favorites for Friday.”
And so let’s get right to it, as there is a
When all the AI hype and AI promoters were insisting that AI would eliminate lawyers and law firms, I said no, over two years ago – I explained in this post here, in June of 2023, that instead the history of technical adoption in lawyering demonstrated the opposite. I did note as well, however